strategy that the obama administration would say is, and i think they re right on this is making progress, particularly in what was the al qaeda the taliban hot land of helmand and kandahar and they ve also done a pretty good job prove tecting kabul. they re not everywhere in the country. they are making progress, it s uneven but we ll allow that to continue. if we can put up the maps that were internal u.n. determinations about whether we were making progress. there s a map from march and then october of this year. that s march. you can see the reddish area is high risk and then if you jump to the october map, just very recently, you see the area of high risk and is increasing the areas of low risk of dimini diminishing. christine, do you think we are winning or losing at a simple military level? i was actually with unama. i ve seen those maps going back to 2002. in 2002, people could drive from cab towel kandahar. now that would only be a
to the october map, just very recently, you see the area of high risk and is increasing the areas of low risk of diminish diminishing. christine, do you think we are winning or losing at a simple military level? i was actually with unama. i ve seen those maps going back to 2002. in 2002, people could drive from cab towel kandahar. now that would only be a lunatic s folly. so in terms of being able to control the terrain, i mean, the evidence is overwhelming. that simply hasn t happened. and point of fact, the true troops that are required to win in this insurgency are not there. admitting that the entire country is not at war, even if you only look at the south and the east, i ve done the math. we still need approximately 300,000 troops to succeed using petraeus own doctrine. and we re nowhere near that. cliff, i m sure you have a